Regen

Video game console emulator

Regen
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000, SC-3000
OS: Windows, Linux
Developer: AamirM
Last release date: 2009-10-25 (15 years ago)
Last version: 0.972

Regen is a Sega Mega Drive emulator for Windows and Linux, developed by AamirM. It was written with high accuracy and compatibility in mind.

Features

• Main Motorola 68000 CPU emulation using Musashi, specially modified for Genesis emulation
• Sound CPU Zilog Z80 emulated using RAZE
• Highly accurate YM2612 emulation, with special High Quality mode
• Very accurate SN76489 PSG (programmable sound generator) emulation
• Stereo sound output
• I/O ports emulated
• Support for 6-button pads, Teamplayer, 4-way play, Menacer lightgun, J-Cart
• Special Sega Virtua Processor (SVP) DSP chip supported; needed by Virtua Racing.
• Serial EEPROM emulation
• Emulation of special on-cartridge protection chips of unlicensed games
• Save/load states in Genecyst format (used by Kega Fusion and Gens)
• GameGenie/Hex/Pro Action Replay code support through cheat files
• Full backup ram support
• Kega Fusion plugin support
• Zip and 7-Zip compressed ROMs supported
• 68000 debugger
• 68000 overclocking
• Many other features

VDP

• Scroll planes A and B with vertical scrolling
• Window plane
• Sprites
• All sprite limitations
• Sprite masking
• Shadow/Highlight
• Interlace mode
• DMA transfer (all modes)
• Accurate H/V timings
• Accurate DMA timings
• NTSC and PAL emulation
• Sprite collision and sprite overflow flags
• FIFO and VDP write timings

Missing

• Only graphics plugins that scale the output by 2 are supported
• No Sega Mega-CD support
• No Sega 32X support
• Konami Justifier and Mega/Sega Mouse are listed in the control preferences but do not work

Download

Old versions

• Versions 0.5, 0.85, 0.95, 0.96, 0.97, 0.971. ^(info) (4.32 MB)
  • Versions 0.01, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.41, 0.6, 0.7, 0.77, 0.9 (Linux) are missing.

External links

• Official website
• Regen forum on Spritesmind